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Win ME is the 98 image but the rock is on the smaller branch
When they combined CE, ME and NT now that was a solid product.
ME was crap, NT was a workhorse (as long as you didn't try to install new stuff too often) and CE... was a wird alien no one know exactly what to do with it (almost had the potential but Microsoft blew it as usual). Win2K was a fine rather stable beast.
Windows CE had the portable device market absolutely locked down circa 2003 -- not including Blackberry which had all the smartphone market, but CE had everything else. And then MS just said "fuck this market completely" and gave up.
My favorite thing about CE was that Microsoft unironically referred to it as "WinCE". It just doesn't get better than that.
I think about that joke all the time, good ol' CEMENT
Win ME worked fine. I’m pretty sure I applied the XP theme and never noticed a difference.
ME was crashing by the phases of the moon or if you hit the keyboard too fast.
Had ME on my home computer. I could had installed 98 but thought ME was newer than 98 so must be better (wrong). But nothing was lost when crashed, you reboot and could start over in no time.